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Bryars - Dido and Orfeo (after Purcell and Gluck) | GB Records BCGBCD30

Bryars - Dido and Orfeo (after Purcell and Gluck)

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Label: GB Records

Cat No: BCGBCD30

Barcode: 5052442023654

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Ballet

Release Date: 29th September 2023

Contents

Artists

Ida Toninato (saxophones)
Jennifer Thiessen (viola)
Jean-Christophe Lizotte (cello)
Njo Kong Kie (piano)

Works

Bryars, Gavin

Dido and Orfeo (after Purcell and Gluck)

Artists

Ida Toninato (saxophones)
Jennifer Thiessen (viola)
Jean-Christophe Lizotte (cello)
Njo Kong Kie (piano)

About

This music, for saxophone, viola, cello and piano, was written by Gavin Bryars for ballet and involves a reworking of music from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, just as a previous collaboration, Amjad (BCGBCD10), had taken Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty as its source.

The music originates in extracts from the two operas chosen by the choreographer - sometimes only forty seconds or less - but recomposed into longer pieces. A few of these, like Purcell's Dido's Lament, are well-known, others less so. But each piece, however much it is transformed, extended or modified, is recognisable from the original. The music was recorded live during the ballet's world tour.

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